Category Archives: Language

You’ve gone to a new country. You’re either learning the language there through a language school, or you’re on the streets surrounded by the language. Billboards speaking to you with simple phrases and a picture that you start learning words from. The sound of the language everywhere. Sooner or later this immersion or bombardment…

At Street Talk Savvy we’ve compiled the list of the best words in the English language. They are probably the best for getting a laugh because most are outdated or just sound funny. We’ve compiled a list of the 10 Best Words in the English Language (and therefore the most useful). 1. Spiffing– This is…

It may or may not be a useful word in French, but today we would like to introduce to you the word “Karcheriser”. The first use of the word probably came from the association with the German pressure cleaning product or power cleaner Kärcher, and from there it entered the French cultural lexicon. The most…

Given that this site is a basically a dictionary, a slang one at that, I decided to include a comment that came to me through my spam. As a blogger, there are many blog sites that post spam messages from their blog site, so that when I include them they get a backlink to their…

Language faux pas’ or stuff ups can make even yourself laugh at your own mistakes. Sometimes we can’t understand what we have said wrong, while everybody about you is falling about the place laughing. But when we look back it even brings a smile back to our faces. The first language mistake I can…

Learning a new language is not always as easy as it seems. The naked truth is that there is not 1 single effective way to learn another language. What it means is that one method is not efficient in learning another language. Why we learn other languages is to communicate with other people who we…

A few years ago while travelling through Sweden I paid a visit to a friend I met travelling while she was passing through my country. I stayed for a week and lodged in the family house. The whole family could speak perfect English like most Swedish people do. But as my cultural exchange the…